Eyal Sivan

Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris. Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem. After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan's films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. He is the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks - a journal of cinema and political critic edited by the Sapir academic college in Israel where he lectures regularly. In the last years Sivan was Reader (associate professor) in media production at the school of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), at the University of East London (UEL) were he was co-leading the MA program in Film, video and new media.
Presently Sivan is an Honorary Fellow at Univerty of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.

filmography
Documentary Films
2012 Common State, potential conversation [1] 124 minutes, colour, Video.
2009 Jaffa, the orange's clockwork 88 minutes, colour, Video.
2004 I Love You All / Aus Liebe Zum Volk (co-directed with Audrey Maurion) 98 minutes, b/w & color, 35mm.
2003 Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (co-directed with Michel Khleifi) Documentary, 272’
1999 The Specialist, portrait of a modern criminal 128’
1995 Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with no Return? 61’
1994 Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome Docu-drama, 64’
1993 Itgaber, he will Overcome 2 x 85’
1990 Izkor, Slaves of Memory 97’
1987 Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through 81’
 
 TV Documentaries
2007 Citizens K, the twin brothers 54’
2005 Faces of the Fallen 52’
1991 Israland 58’

Short films
2001 On the Top of the Descent Fiction 32’
1997 Burundi, under Terror Photomentary, b/w, 13’
1996 Itsembatsemba, Rwanda one Genocide later Photomentary, b/w, 13’
Other visual media works
2012 Towards a common archive, testimonies of Zionist veterans of 1948 Multi screens video show.
2012  IssueZero : Montage Interdit Berlin Documentary Forum 2 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt www.hkw.de
2010  Documentary moments 1 : Renaissance Berlin Documentary Forum 1 New practices across disciplines. Haus der Kulturen der Welt www.hkw.de
2009  Fragmented memory of spectatorship Top 10 documentary programme IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam